Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.